The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 75

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 75

 

Marcel said in an awkward tone.

 

“But he said he would wait until Your Excellency agrees to meet him…”

 

Eve spoke in a gloomy tone.

 

“I barely got any work done yesterday.”

 

“…!”

 

“Have you finished processing all the reports submitted by the administrators?”

 

“About… half of them have been processed.”

 

Eve looked at the documents she hadn’t been able to process yesterday and the new documents that had come in this morning, stacked beside them, and said.

 

“Should I go have an argument with someone from the Rodrick Family? Taking my time leisurely for about half a day…”

 

Marcel smiled brightly and sat down.

 

“No. It’s obvious they just came to pick a trivial fight. Why should Your Excellency waste energy on such matters? If we leave them alone, they’ll get tired and disappear on their own.”

 

Eve clapped her palms together and spoke in a clear tone.

 

“Marcel, I really like that aspect of you.”

 

Marcel crossed his index and middle fingers under the desk while wearing a bright smile.

 

“Hahaha, I really like you too, Marquis.”

 

“Good. Then let’s get to work.”

 

After that, they spent the entire morning dealing with the piled-up documents and completely forgot about the unwelcome guest from the Rodrick Family.

 

During lunch time, Allen subtly mentioned the unwelcome guest, saying ‘he’s still waiting,’ but Eve let those words go in one ear and out the other.

 

While chewing food with his mouth, his mind was busy recalling the conversation he had with the merchants yesterday.

 

‘It seems conflicts have finally arisen among the mermaids of the Bay of Silver.’

 

It was Lagot’s secret message.

 

That was exactly what Eve Russel had wanted.

 

Some monsters can be controlled.

 

Eve Russel, the master of House of Russel which had close ties to Monster Forest, knew this well.

 

The lower the species of monster, the more obsessed they are with human blood.

 

Sea mermaids are a higher species.

 

They have more complex desires than the instinctive thirst for human blood.

 

If one understands this, humans can control them.

 

Eve Russel had long known that a small number of merchants had been continuously attempting to communicate with the mermaids.

 

As the owner of Duran Port, he had subtly given many benefits to merchants with such tendencies, encouraging them to dock at Duran Port more frequently.

 

Lagot and Ramsay in particular were those who had succeeded in making direct contact with the mermaids.

 

They overcame their fear with adventurous spirit and taught the mermaids ways to get what they wanted without fighting.

 

Thanks to this, Duran Port was able to achieve peace, even if temporarily.

 

Eve Russel said.

 

‘What I want is peace.’

 

However, not all mermaids would want peace.

 

Considering the history of mermaids who had fought fiercely with humans for hundreds of years, the mermaids who were now being won over by merchants would actually be the strange ones among their kind.

 

Then division was inevitable.

 

That was what Eve Russel had been aiming for.

 

‘Of Duran Port.’

 

At Eve Russel’s additional words, Lagot and Ramsay, who grasped his true intention, smiled secretly.

 

If division occurred among the mermaids, the violent mermaids would have to leave Duran Port.

 

However, since mermaids cannot leave the Bay of Silver, the only path remaining for them would be to head north.

 

Then the peace of Duran Port would be solidified, while the ports upstream of Silver River would become more chaotic.

 

To be precise, Otiz Port, the largest port in the northwest and owned by the Relbeau Family.

 

‘Finally, the economy of the South, which has been neglected until now, will come alive.’

 

While drinking tea after the meal, Eve Russel organized his thoughts.

 

‘It would be good to get cooperation from the southern nobles, but the big drawback is that all the power in the South is concentrated in people who are stubborn and eccentric. To move those people…’

 

Eve Russel’s steps stopped as he was strolling through the Garden to move his body for a moment.

 

Radis was sitting under the pergola in the Garden.

 

She had a blank expression, lost in thought.

 

Seeing that face, Eve felt all the complex thoughts filling his mind fly away.

 

“Why is she sitting there so blankly?”

 

Forgetting that he himself had been wandering around with a blank face just moments ago, Eve looked at Radis and chuckled.

 

He approached her with long strides, calling out to her.

 

“Radis…!”

 

Radis, who came to her senses at his voice, looked at him with wide eyes.

 

Eve saw Radis’s eyes, which had widened in surprise, gently close as she smiled.

 

Seeing that face, he felt as if his heart was sinking.

 

‘What is this?’

 

Eve hesitated and couldn’t easily approach her.

 

He saw Radis putting on the cloak she had briefly taken off and standing up from her seat.

 

Then his heart seemed to sink all the way down to his toes.

 

Radis, wearing the black cloak, looked at Eve and smiled faintly.

 

“Marquis, you look good today, which is fortunate.”

 

Seeing that smile, he felt as if his heart had been stung by a bee.

 

Eve Russel was dumbfounded.

 

‘Am I… an idiot? This is an insult to my black angel and my pure feelings! Has my, my love… turned into an obsession with black cloaks?’

 

Eve Russel almost collapsed on the spot.

 

While outwardly maintaining as much composure as possible, he was inwardly experiencing a shock as if the sky was falling.

 

In his shock, Eve suddenly unfastened the buttons of Radis’s cloak and took it away.

 

“…?”

 

Radis watched Eve’s actions with a bewildered expression.

 

“You don’t need to wear things like this anymore!”

 

Radis, who had been rolling her eyes in confusion, frowned and said.

 

“I wasn’t wearing it for you, Marquis.”

 

“No, let me correct that. Don’t wear it!”

 

Radis was simply incredulous.

 

‘Have you lost your mind?’

 

But she couldn’t say that.

 

Radis suppressed her urge to hit Eve and spoke in the most gentle tone possible.

 

“If you’re angry because I wore your clothes without permission, I’ll apologize. But I don’t quite understand – yesterday you even asked me to wear it…”

 

At her words, Eve began turning bright red from his nape to his forehead.

 

To hide his embarrassment, he even crumpled up the cloak in his hands and threw it far away.

 

“Anyway! I’ll buy you as many new clothes as you want, so don’t wear things like that anymore!”

 

“…”

 

Radis looked at Eve Russel with pitying eyes.

 

‘It’s really hard to please the Marquis…’

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Get away from her.”

 

A voice as cold as a freshly sharpened blade cut between them.

 

Radis turned toward where the sound came from.

 

And the next moment, her world turned upside down.

 

It was him.

 

‘Robert.’

 

Gray eyes resembling a sky heavy with storm clouds were gazing at Radis.

 

He didn’t ask her anything.

 

He just looked at her as if he already knew without being told.

 

In front of him, Radis couldn’t be honest.

 

What could it have been?

 

Had he given up in despair, thinking that even if he knew the truth, nothing would change?

 

Was it because of the guilt from having deceived him and his comrades for so long?

 

Or was it really, truly because of useless pride?

 

Eve spoke in a growling voice.

 

“What are you?”

 

“The guest you’ve been waiting for all day.”

 

“Are you that human from the Rodrick Family? What do you mean guest when you’re an unwelcome intruder?”

 

Radis wanted to call Robert’s name.

 

However, she swallowed her words with difficulty, as she always had.

 

He wouldn’t know her.

 

Perhaps he had misunderstood that Eve was bothering her and had stepped in to stop Eve with a knightly heart.

 

Robert spoke with a bitter smile.

 

“I don’t have business with you.”

 

He looked at Radis and said.

 

“Di.”

 

Radis’s eyes widened endlessly.

 

She looked at Robert with a face full of disbelief.

 

Seeing her expression, a faint smile appeared on Robert’s face.

 

Robert said.

 

“I came to see you.”

 

Lies accumulate interest called guilt.

 

In her previous life, Radis’s interest grew like a snowball day by day.

 

If her lies had been for her own benefit, she would have been unable to bear the weight of that debt and confessed the truth long ago.

 

However, her lies were for the Tilrod Family, for her family.

 

She couldn’t even dare to imagine what the aftermath would be if the lies she had built up were exposed.

 

She had deceived chivalry, the Extermination Troops, the people of Willingheim and the southern commoners, the entire Empire.

 

So she had to endure the weight of guilt that grew every morning and continue lying until the end.

 

“…I’m sorry, Captain.”

 

When she reunited with Robert, what struck her first wasn’t the joy of meeting him again or the surprise that she wasn’t the only one who had traveled back in time.

 

It was the guilt that had grown like a mountain.

 

Twenty-year-old Robert, sitting in the luxurious chair of the drawing room, was staring at her intently with those eyes that resembled the cloudy sky.

 

Under that gaze, Radis didn’t know what to do with herself.

 

After a long while, Robert opened his mouth.

 

“What are you sorry for?”

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